Category: Zine Reviews

Posted on: January 14, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Diatribe #2

Diatribe #2 / Half Sized / 16 Pages / [email protected] / $1 / This is a personal zine that is immensely political. Or maybe vise versa, but I really don’t know. Aaron Cynic does a good job in doing very emotionally-charged pieces for ey’s magazine, describing many of his pieces with glimmers of hope that are almost at odds with ey’s self-chosen nickname. While the first issue (one I did…

Posted on: January 14, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dog in Space #4

Dog in Space #4 / Half-Sized / 32 Pages / Dog in Space c/o Jess, 4007 Dorcas Drive, Nashville, TN 37215 / [email protected] / http://livejournal.com/~lulabydisection /  I must say, I love Jess. I love all that ey does. I’ve tried to help sometimes to help print Dog in Space, but this issue is early enough that I’m pretty sure that it came out before I met eir. This whole issue…

Posted on: January 14, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dead Society #4

Dead Society #4 / Half-Sized / 24 Pages / $1 / Karim c/o Dead Society, P.O. Box 1138, Somerton, AZ 85350 / [email protected] / Dead Society is the zine I wish I would have done back in high school. This zine features a lot of pieces about politics, written from a somewhat centrist set of people. For example, there is a piece describing the need for weapons in the upcoming…

Posted on: January 13, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

The Dead Bell

The Dead Bell / :40 / $2 (No Prisoners) / 84M / [email protected] / http://www.skdistro.cjb.net / The Dead Bell has an early nineties feel to it that really strengthens the content within – lots of hand-drawn borders, cut and pasted text, as well as no real political or personal agenda. Pizie just comes out and drops this beast of a zine on our laps, and opens eirself completely to eir’s…

Posted on: January 13, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dave Dumpsterland and The Great Wall of Bagels

Dave Dumpsterland and The Great Wall of Bagels / Half Size / 32 Pages / [email protected] Whether this zine is a story, fable, or some form of illustrated poetry, I will never know. However, thi szine will probably be one of the most fun times you will have with a zine. Pretty much an amalgamation between a comic and a background-illustrated perzine, the story of Dave Dumpsterland is a heart-warming…

Posted on: January 12, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dagger #38

Dagger #38 / $2 / :45 / http://www.indiepages.com/dagger /  There are a lot of reviews in this issue of Dagger. So many, in fact, that about 90% of the non-advertisement space in this issue is dedicated to all fo the different albums and DVDs that Dagger ahs received in the space since the last issue was released. But is this a good thing? There is just not enough in the…

Posted on: January 11, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dagger #32

Dagger #32 / 68 Pages / Full-Sized / Tim Hinely, PO Box 820102, Portland Oregon 97282-1102 / [email protected] / http://www.indiepages.com/dagger / Hey, another issue of Dagger. This time, though, there are even less acts that are being interviewed that I’ve heard, and the same amount of reviews still choke the life out of what might be a slightly interesting zine. This issue starts out promising with Tim’s editorial, discussing the…

Posted on: January 11, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dagger #32

Dagger #32 / 76 Pages / Full-Sized / Tim Hinely, PO Box 820102, Portland Oregon 97282-1102 / [email protected] / http://www.indiepages.com/dagger While there is always the maxim that one should respect their elders, and the fact that Dagger has been around for over 16 years, I just can’t really get into this magazine. The paper its printed on is newsprint, and pretty much every piece in the magazine is laid out…

Posted on: January 10, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dachau Tour Guide #1

I received this from Clamor Magazine, who wanted me to review it. I am, so much later that it isn’t even funny anymore. I’m sorry, guys. This is your average zine, really. Prose pieces about farming and Jessica, the editor’s, life lead into poetry about white bread. Heavy focus is on her ex-boyfriend, which she makes sure that her audiences knows that “She’s not over yet”, and also on her…

Posted on: January 10, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Cut-it-out #1

I’ve been waiting for this zine for months, and this was one amazing read. Saying that, this was probably the longest I’ve ever taken on doing a review on a zine. The zine is remarkably small, being forth sized but eighty tightly packed pages. Amber, the editor, shrinks all of the pages, presumably originally taking up an entire 8.5 by 11 page, and provides a read that is extremely worth…

Posted on: January 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Cornelia Cartoonz #3

Cornelia Cartoonz #3 / $1 / 20 Pages / half sized / Kel Crum, 32 W. Goodman Dr. Apt 23, Fairborn, OH 45324/ [email protected] One of the faster reads of zines I’ve had the experience to pick up from the free table at UPC/AMC, Cornelia Cartoonz reads (at times) like a mixture of the Boondocks and Doonsbury, and at other times like Dilbert mounting Cathy. Yes, folks, Cornelia Cartoonz is…

Posted on: January 9, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Conflagration #7

By the Goddess, I don’t know why it took me so long to read this magazine. I’ve had it since August of 2002 (it’s almost December), and while I have tried to read the zine before, the subject matter was just so personal that I couldn’t bring myself to read it. I am very glad that I actually was able to get through it tonight, as this issue deals with…

Posted on: January 8, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Complete Control #11

Complete Control #11 / $2 / 7 by 8.5 / 32 Pages / PO Box 5021, Richmond, VA 23220 / Usually, I tend to zone out when I am reading recollections or tour diaries, but Greg’s extended narrative is written in such a way to hold my interest for the entirety of the 32 pages. While Operation: Cliff Clavin was long defunct by the time I had started getting into…

Posted on: January 8, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Committed to the Custody of the Attorney General

Committed to the Custody of the Attorney General (Seth M. Ferranti, 18205-083 Box 420 B-Left , Fairton, NJ 08320) This is probably the second zine that I’ve ever had the chance to review by a prisoner, and this one is much different in tone and style than the other one I reviewed. Completely deconstructing the inane laws of the judicial society in poetry, in pieces of art, and other prose,…

Posted on: January 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Dodgy #1

Dodgy #1 I just want to say that the editor of this magazine is a very cool guy, as he set me along a mix CD and placed the copy of his zine in this awesome homemade envelope. He seems very knowledgeable about zines even though this is his first zine, even going as far as picking out an odd-sized paper for his zine and hand-binding each issue! Wow! I…

Posted on: January 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Comixville #8

Comixville #8 / .50 / :10 / 28S / PO Box 697, Portland, OR 97207 /  There aren’t too many zines that will review comics. It just always has seen as if there has been an artificial wall between the two, and when something like The Assassin and the Whiner, Out of the Blue or Comixville mixes the two genres I couldn’t be happier. There is a focus on Ben…

Posted on: January 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Doctor Arcane #4

Doctor Arcane #4 / $3.25 / 36M / http://www.heroicpub.com / I must admit that I do not know the intricacies of all sorts of independent comic producers, but Heroic Publishing sent over this zine. The comic style blends together current DC comics (Superman) with the work of the Cartoon Network (Teen Titans, Legion of Super-Heroes). The story starts pretty cold, allowing individuals to pick up this issue without needing much…

Posted on: January 7, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Comix Current #1

Comix Current #1 / Free / 16M / [email protected] / [email protected] / The first piece in Comix Current is an explanation about the history of comics and comic strips. I had no clue that the art form had such a long history, but apparently it can be followed all the way back to the 17th century. The piece is relatively short but does not leave anything out in the way…

Posted on: January 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Clamor Magazine #34

Clamor Magazine #34 / $4.50 / :45 / 76M / http://www.clamormagazine.com /  Clamor Magazine is always an interesting read, and this issues theme, “Academia Under Attack” is no exception. To be honest, there is maybe a little too heavy of a focus on traditional academia; this focus is merited but seems to be a little dry at times barring the cover piece about Ward Churchill). This piece creates two distinct…

Posted on: January 6, 2008 Posted by: James Comments: 0

Clown Fantasies #5

This is another of my friends’ zines, this time done by Dan from Breaking World Records. This zine is very spastic in the choice of pieces, and I personally feel that I am missing out by not having a chance to read the other issues of this magazine. Some pieces I just personally can’t get into, including the two formal pieces about Hitchcock movies. The deconstructionalist poetry is always fun…